Thanks Mike. I'm glad to hear there is a programming language out there that actually uses the locale information. Unfortunately, there isn;t anything in LiveCode, for numbers and currency that is.
Pete Haworth On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Well if you can figure out how to get locale to work from an lc shell, there > are interesting things that can be done in that vein using python. > > If LANG is set to en_GB, and locale is actually working, you can feed it to > a python script such as this > > #!/usr/bin/python > import locale -- for locale stuff of course > import sys -- so we can get argv > tVal = float(sys.argv[1]) -- sets argv[1] type to float and puts in tval > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ' ' ) -- assuming all is perfect *cough* > grabs the locale > tOut = locale.currency(tVal,1,1,0) > > -- puts out the number with adjustements. tVal is passed number, next is > whether to show or not show the symbol, next is grouping on or off, next is > use international symbol, or not. So, if LANG is set to en_GB you get back > the great brit symbol, groups of 3, seperated by comma with a "." decimal. > > As you say though, not sure it'ts worth the effort, can just ask the user. > > If you're curious, I got this info from > http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@mollysrevenge.com>wrote: > >> Thanks Mike. 'Fraid the command you gave me still returns the incorrect >> info when executed with the LC shell command. >> >> In answer to your other email, I'm trying to get this info so I can format >> numbers and currency in my application according to the user's preferences, >> rather than having the user specify the same preferences to my application. >> But it's quickly becoming more trouble than it's worth! >> >> >> Pete Haworth >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.mollysrevenge.com >> http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge >> http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: >> >>> Ok, while this doesn't solve the issue, if you do >>> >>> shell("LANG=en_US.UTF-8;locale -k LC_NUMERIC") >>> >>> You get back the correct info yes? >>> >>> The problem here is that (I think someone said this farther up) the >> process >>> shell uses isn't the same as a full blown terminal start. If you have a >>> .bash_profile file in your user directory, and you do >>> >>> shell("source ~/.bash_profile ; locale -k LC_MONETARY") does it work? >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@mollysrevenge.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> OK, In terminal, that returns "LANG=en_US.UTF-8". With the LC shell >>>> command, it returns nothing!! There's definitely something weird going >> on >>>> with the LC shell command. >>>> >>>> Pete Haworth >>>> >>>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'd still be curious to know if >>>>> env; |grep LANG >>>>> >>>>> returns the same environment variable value both from LC shell, and >> from >>>>> terminal >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
